History for May 27

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Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794 - Entrepreneur (shipping and railroads), Wild Bill Hickok 1837 - gunfighter, scout, lawman, Dashiell Hammett 1894 - Author


Hubert H. Humphrey (Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr.) 1911 - Served as Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson, Herman Wouk 1915 - Author, Henry Kissinger 1923 - Former U.S. Secretary of State


1647 - Alse Young (Achsah Young or Alice Young), a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a "witch." It was the first recorded American execution of a "witch."


1896 - 255 people were killed in St. Louis, MO, when a tornado struck.


1933 - Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs" was first released.


1941 - The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed.


1942 - German General Erwin Rommel began a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.


1969 - Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida.


1994 - Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia. He had been in exile for two decades.


1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while President Clinton was in office.